Sprout Kitchen is a small-scale food processing and innovation hub that serves the North Cariboo Food Hub Region with a physical location in Quesnel, B.C. A member of the BC Food Hub Network, Sprout Kitchen provides space and support for emerging and existing food entrepreneurs to get their ideas off the ground or scale their business for new markets. Sprout Kitchen is an initiative of the City of Quesnel with generous support from the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Northern Development Initiative Trust.
Serving the area from Vanderhoof to One Hundred Mile House, Sprout Kitchen offers new and established food businesses and community groups access to shared processing infrastructure including processing and testing equipment, food business advisory services, product development services, analytic services, applied research opportunities, and education and training related to food processing and food safety.